After making his complaint, Mr Sawyer said Fury was ‘ignorant to the difference between homosexuality and paedophilia’.

He said Fury was entitled to his opinions, but insisted ‘if they are offensive, he should keep them private’, and offered the boxer the chance to do an hour’s charity work on Canal Street in Manchester city centre.

The dad-of-two, whose wife is expecting a third child and who now lives in Morecambe, Lancashire, has refused to back-down after his controversial outbursts made headlines across the country.

Tyson Fury with the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO belts after winning the world heavyweight title (Image: Martin Meissner)

The self-styled ‘Gypsy King’ Fury, who grew up in a house in the village of Styal near Wilmslow and is a devout Roman Catholic, was also accused of being sexist after saying athlete and fellow nominee BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award, Jessica Ennis-Hill ‘looked good in a dress’.

A petition calling for the BBC to remove him from the shortlist has already gained more than 130,000 signatures.

Olympic gold medallist Greg Rutherford also threatened to withdraw over the inclusion of Fury on the shortlist. After his threat was leaked to media Olympian Rutherford said that he refused to bow out because of a ‘bigot’.

Fury was also stripped of his IBF world heavyweight title on Tuesday after organising a rematch with Klitschko, instead of the organisation’s mandatory challenger Vyacheslav Glazkov. Fury still has the WBO, WBA and IBO titles.